Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Baker

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 01:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Susan Baker

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Non-notable individual lacking GHits and GNEWs of substance. Article lacks specific references to establish notability or WP:PROF. ttonyb (talk) 08:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete appears to fail WP:PROF based on a Gscholar search; Gnews was similarly unavailing, however, due to the commonnesss of the name I might have missed something. When searching under Gscholar, be careful to search for Susan M. Baker, as Susan Baker is an extraordinarily common name, and yielded only a single sure hit for the subject (based on field of inquiry, etc). Ray^Talk 04:06, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. On GS I get one hit with 53 cites. Does not seem to be enough. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Delete, not notable. Three degrees from the same school is already a strike against her. Hairhorn (talk) 17:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why is that? Xxanthippe (talk) 01:38, 21 March 2010 (UTC).[reply]

In some parts of academia, there is an opinion that it is inappropriate to go to the same school for grad school as for undergrad - you're supposed to get wider exposure to the research community. People who go to the same school for various degrees, by this reasoning, are under some suspicion for coming from a walled garden, particularly if the school in question does not have a great reputation. It's not an argument I would care to use, as there are too many conditionals and what-ifs that may intervene, but it's one I've heard before. Ray^Talk 23:03, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. I hadn't come across the idea before. I guess it varies between cultures, but I doubt if a person with a first degree, a master's and a PhD all from Harvard would be held to be of less account. However, the idea won't help this BLP. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:32, 22 March 2010 (UTC).[reply]

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